The associations are ‘falling between the cracks’ of scrutiny because they are registered under the students’ union and are not subject to FOI requests.
The University of Alberta Students’ Union had to step in to stop inappropriate practices in the presidential election of a controversial Beijing-linked Chinese students’ group on campus, The Epoch Times has learned.
A precedent-setting court case from the late 1990s shows how Canadian laws were used by immigration officials in a case involving Chinese espionage and subversion activities on a university campus.
The McMaster University incident is part of a growing trend of reports of Chinese consulates and embassies exerting influence and interference in their host countries.
A 20-year-old female Chinese international student at Carnegie Mellon says she received threats for voicing criticism of the Chinese Student Association.